Word: lynching
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This is the thesis of Jesuit William Lynch, literary critic and assistant professor of English at Georgetown University, and one of the most incisive Catholic intellectuals in the U.S., as he expounds it in a new book, Christ and Apollo (Sheed & Ward1; $5). Manichaeans are every where, says Lynch, particularly in the arts. His case against them: instead of looking directly upward for insight into the in finite, the true way up is the way down -into the finite facts of life. The literary imagination, striving to ascend to free dom, must descend into things, and the model...
...Lynch contrasts Christ and Apollo. Apollo symbolizes the dream, "a kind of autonomous and facile intellectualism that thinks form can be given to the world by the top of the head alone, without contact with the world, without contact with the rest of the self...
...other hand, stands "for the completely definite, for the Man who, in taking on our human nature, took on every inch of it (save sin) in all its density, and who so obviously did not march too quickly or too glibly to beauty, the infinite, the dream." Lynch adds: "I keep before my mind the remark of W. H. Auden that no one cares much who were the cousins and the sisters and the aunts of Apollo whereas we are completely interested in every detail of the life and being of Christ...
Another sign of encouragement was the continued buying of the small investor. A Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith survey taken in October showed that more than 62,000 of its customers intended to buy securities into mid-1960, and only 9,800 planned to sell; 53,400 planned both to buy and sell, and 17,600 planned to make no investment changes. Last week Merrill Lynch reported that its customers had meant what they said: they bought 871,000 shares more than they sold in January, and 396,000 more through...
Most often mentioned in this category were Councillors John D. Lynch and Andrew T. Trodden. So far, however, Lynch has stuck by Walter J. Sullivan, presumably because of his traditional policy of supporting the candidate who topped the ticket in the fall election; Trodden has voted once for each other independent, and twice for himself...